Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
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I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.
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Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
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Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..
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I pay these niggers with a reality check
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When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican... there are not a lot of rich people there.
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I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.
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I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.
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12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple senses of what treatment could look like.
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We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.
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I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's.
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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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Success is a process that never ends.
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At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.
